Update: Two men wanted in connection with Newport News homicide arrested

Police searched one suspect's 32nd Street home Saturday

January 09, 2012|Allison T. Williams and Tyra M. Vaughn

NEWPORT NEWS – Two men wanted in connection with the shooting death of 30-year-old Bobby Jackson Jr. were arrested Monday after turning themselves in to police, said police spokesman Harold Eley.

Police charged Gregory Jones, 37, of 3305 Roanoke Ave. with murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Warrants were also issued against a second suspect, Marvin Hunt, 37, of 1155 32nd St., on charges of murder and possession of a weapon by felon.

Following their arrest the men were questioned by police, Eley said.

On Saturday, police filed warrants and executed a search warrant at Hunt's house of 32nd Street, said Eley.

Jackson was found dead on a sidewalk near 32nd and Salters streets, at the intersection where the two roads meet in a dead end, around 6:20 a.m. Friday. He lived in the 100 block of Cedar Avenue in Newport News, about a mile away from where he was found.

Jackson was dead at the scene. He had been shot multiple times in the upper torso, according to police.

Anyone with information on Jones or Hunt's whereabouts are asked to call the Newport News Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP